IDIOMA - Innovative distribution with intermodal freight operation in metropolitan areas
Overview
Background & policy context:
Efficient freight transport is an important factor of competitiveness of urban areas and to sustain wealth generation. However, freight traffic also imposes significant costs in terms of congestion and environmental pollution, which, in turn, affect significantly the quality of life in the cities. To reduce the pressure on the cities' infrastructures and inhabitants and being aware that the final part of the transport chain towards the delivery point is undertaken by a wide range of actors, there is a need for assessing whether new intermodal concepts can be applied. Such concepts rely mainly on new schemes for co-operation and co-ordination between different modes and organisations, as well as on new technologies for the intermodal loading units, for the exchange of information in the intermodal markets and for the improvement of the transhipment operations.
Objectives:
The main project objective was to demonstrate different concepts aimed to
improve the distribution of goods within urban areas and between
intermodal terminals/freight centres and urban areas.
Specific objectives of the project were to implement and assess in five
sites (Nürnberg in Germany, the Öresund region, the Ile de France, the
Randstad agglomeration in The Nerherlands, and Zürich) innovative
solutions in the following areas:
regional or local bundling of urban freight transport, using common
carriers or co-operative distribution concepts (Nürnberg, Öresund,
Randstad, Zürich),
new loading units in urban intermodal transport (Nürnberg, Zürich),
new ICT applications for information exchange in intermodal transport,
including optimisation of distribution networks (Nürnberg and Randstad)
and multi-operator tracking and tracing systems (Nürnberg, Ile de
France),
new transhipment systems (Zürich),
combined passenger and freight transport concepts (Öresund), and
use of alternative fuels and energy sources in urban freight vehicles
(Nürnberg, Öresund).
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